2005 ASHES Episode 2: WAKE UP CALL

The Analyst Inside Cricket

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Classic retelling of the epic drama of the 2005 Ashes - the greatest Test cricket series ever. This is the wildly fluctuating first Test at Lord's. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann marvel at the explosive first hour when England's fast bowlers struck down the Aussies intimidatory batting. The relentless Glenn McGrath struck back to reduce England to 21-5 from which they never properly recovered. This episode features great Channel 4 match footage of that first hour, McGrath's revenge, Freddie Flintoff's disappointing Ashes debut, Kevin Pietersen's dramatic entry into Test cricket and Shane Warne's ultimate mastery. There are interviews with Flintoff, Warne, McGrath, Michael Vaughan, Simon Jones, Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist and Jason Gillespie. And commentary from the legends like Richie Benaud and Tony Greig. Available to watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/GsfY3YLqONo?si=wYZ0LnPlHIeKF0AJ #ashes #englandcricket #england #testcricket Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.9	The Greatest Ashes with me Simon Hughes
1:23.4	And I'm Simon Mann
1:24.5	And in this episode which we're calling Wake Up Call at Lords,
1:28.0	we're going to look back at the Lord's test of that Ashes series, the first test.
1:32.9	It was a massive build-up to that test match, wasn't it, almost 10 months' worth?
1:37.7	Well, it's easy to forget that England had a significant victory against Australia
1:43.3	in the Champions Trophy
1:44.4	semi-final the previous summer, the end of the previous summer. England actually lost
1:48.0	the final to the West Indies. The tournament was played in September, but there was a day at
1:51.9	Edgberston where England took down Australia. They beat them quite convincingly in the
1:55.5	semi-final, chasing mid-250s. They won with a bit to spare. And there was just a sense that, okay, it was a one-day
2:03.7	match, but there was just a sense, hold on, this Australian side, which contained a lot of the
2:07.9	players that were going to go on and play in the ashes, could be beaten. England could actually
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